Bexley
2026 Healthy Streets Scorecard results
Bexley remains at the bottom of the Healthy Streets Scorecard, in 33rd place overall, with its final score falling slightly from 1.28 to 1.18 out of 10. This is one of the clearest cases this year where very little has changed: the borough recorded no improvement on LTNs, 20mph roads, CPZs, School Streets or bus priority. Bexley did not supply an update to the Healthy Streets Scorecard this year.
The most striking gap remains with School Streets. Bexley still has no School Streets at all, leaving it as the only London borough without any schemes. Its other street-level indicators are also very weak: only 9.6% of borough roads have 20mph limits, bus priority remains the lowest in London at 1.2%, and LTN coverage is just 5.8%. There was a small increase in protected cycle track coverage, from 1.4% to 1.7%, but this reflects legacy tracks added from campaigner reports rather than new borough delivery.
The outcome indicators underline the same problem. Sustainable modeshare fell from 44.3% to 42.9%, the lowest figure in London. Only 30.8% of adults walk regularly, and cycling participation remains low at 6.7%, with the score carried over because of limited new data. Car dependency also remains high, with 99.3 cars per 100 households and only 26.7% of households car-free. Bexley is not just a low-scoring borough: it is one where the gap with the rest of London remains stubbornly wide.
The Healthy Streets Scorecard combines scores for ten indicators to create an overall Healthy Streets score for each borough. See the graph below for 2026 results (includes 2019–2025 results for comparison). For more detail visit the London-wide overview of the 2026 results. You can also:
- Review summaries of this year’s results for outcome indicators and input indicators
- Read our in-depth explanation of the ten indicators
- View results for other boroughs
Scorecard (factored score) chart explained
In the chart above, each borough has been given a factored score. Factor scores are composite variables which provide information about a borough’s placement on a scale. Factor scores are given by F=XB, where X is the indicator normalised score for a borough and B is the factor score coefficient (or weight). Each indicator is weighted as 1, or 0.5 if there are two parts to one indicator, for example Modeshare has a weighting of 1, Active travel – walking has a weighting of 0.5 and Active travel – cycling has a weighting of 0.5. The borough’s total factored score is the sum of all indicator factored scores which is then factored to 10 (multiplied by the number of indicators/10) to give a value on the scale between zero and 10. We can then compare boroughs against each other on the scale.